RUFF 



REEVE (FEMALE) FIGHTING RUFF SHORE SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXXI. 



Machetes fugnax, .... LINN^US. GOULD. 



Totanus pugnax^ .... SEEBOHM. 



Tringa equestris, .... LATHAM. 



Tringa littorea t .... LATHAM. 



Totanus cinereus, .... BRISSON. 



THE Reeve, which formerly bred in numbers in the 

 east of England, is now only seen on migration. In 

 the north of Europe it begins to lay the first or second 

 week in May, and the young are hatched the beginning of 

 June. The nest, made of coarse grass, is placed on some 

 hillock among sedges or rushes. 



The eggs are subject to considerable variety : some are 

 of a greyish-green ground colour, others olive brown, spotted 

 with reddish brown. They are four in number. 



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